trouble with 'eject' of cdrom, writing cdrom
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Dec 4 17:08:16 UTC 2004
John Francis Lee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have FC3 installed and notice that, although FC3 mounts a cdrom when
> inserted into my cdrom reader/writer, it complains when I try to eject
> it :
> eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc'
>
> [jfl at ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Dec 1 19:28 /dev/hdc
>
> So I have changed the permissions :
> [jfl at ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 0 Dec 1 19:28 /dev/hdc
> and now things seem to work.
>
> Yet I have read that the /dev directory is now dynamically populated,
> somehow.
> Under what conditions is the /dev directory dynamically populated?
> Will I have to reset permissions in the future?
>
> Thanks for any light you might shed on this phenomenon.
>
I believe that there was a program that was upgraded that removed this
behavior. Is your system upgraded to the latest available upgrades? I am
thinking that it was udev, but not sure as to the specific component
containing the fix.
Jim
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